HoF hiatus for me = Chasing Time Victories -- For you?

[zenmaster]

Not sure how much the rest of you Civ 5 HoF stalwarts are playing during the HoF hiatus, but Civ 7 seems to be a step backwards over 6 (which I didn't really like) and 5 and 4...
so I am still getting in some Civ 5 play on occasion.

I have been focusing on time victories. With no time pressures to complete gauntlet games, Time victories let one breathe in the Civ 5 experience slowly, haha.

 

[vadalaz]

What's your take on "slow and steady" vs "tall first, rapid expansion later" approaches for Time VC?

 

[zenmaster]

What's your take on "slow and steady" vs "tall first, rapid expansion later" approaches for Time VC?

I have been playing slightly higher difficulties most recently where tall first and rapid expansion later seems pretty much hands down better.

And to be honest, I have been playing them all so far on Lakes maps to not deal with the massive map sprawl and game slowdown haha.

Even with a Lakes map, I had to switch to the very simple view mode or else I would crash multiple times a turn.
It was the only way I could finish the game, even with a modern laptop. I fear a larger map may be beyond my laptop. May try a bigger map on PC soon.

I want to run some lower difficulty slow and steady tries and maybe work my way up and compare.

 

[vadalaz]

I have been playing slightly higher difficulties most recently where tall first and rapid expansion later seems pretty much hands down better.

Aztecs, India, or other civs?

Don't think I've ever played an Immortal+ Time VC. I'd imagine stroing AIs create more problems than opportunities overall? Although Venice and Austria opponents would be interesting to raze a few CSs. Pachacuti and William would actually construct some Terrace Farms and Polders, on low difficulties they take too long to get those online.

Steady and Delayed approaches I think lead to pretty much the same result if the game lasts 500 turns. Steady might be a bit stronger if you want to benefit from two religions (e.g. get Pagodas and Mosques from an AI in every city). Sometimes I wish there had been more gauntlets or GOTMs with a limit of 250-350 turns - choosing the right strategy would've been more consequential in such games.